Architecture, Environment & HousingHeritage Conservation & Management

Heritage Conservation & Management

Asia’s rich and diverse cultural heritage resources deserve a much higher attention and care from our societies. Although the protection and conservation of these resources are gaining respects, they are still under threat from rapid development and insensitive tourism etc. Better management of cultural heritage resources and relevant heritage education is being seen as vital for its successful protection.

The concept of Cultural Heritage has expanded beyond the conventional limit of historic monumental architecture and artefacts, but to embrace intangible aspects and local community. A holistic and sustainable approach is now regarded as critical in managing cultural heritage resources.

Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management programmes developed by HKU SPACE take a broad embracing view of cultural heritage management and systematically explore current and emerging issues of Asia.

Introduce students to overview of museology, curatorship and museum operation management. This programme is unique as students would assign with various positions to experience the dynamic and challenging environments in running a museum safeguarding cultural heritage.

Do you want to do more for our trees? An arborist specializes in the cultivation, management and study of trees. His/her main focus is on the proper caring to ensure the health and structural conditions of trees, hence the term “tree doctor”. This course gives you a glimpse into the career in arboriculture.

In view of the quality tree management policy of the HKSAR Government and the increasing social awareness of tree conservation in parallel, this programme is to respond to the urgent demand for professional training for personnel engaging in tree management and conservation work. Employees in the fields or organizations such as landscape architecture, surveying, property management, contractor works, government administrative departments and public organizations relating tree management and conservation would be directly benefited by taking this programme.

This Cultural Heritage Management Programme (CHM), established since 2005, is an unique programme in Hong Kong which takes holistic approach to study the sustainable management of both tangible and intangible heritage resources in a systemic manner through lectures, discussion, workshops, class exercise and local & overseas field studies.